From: Stewart <stewart.matheson@...>
Date: 2009-08-12T01:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Readline not working with Ruby

On Aug 11, 4:59 pm, Brian Candler <b.cand...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Stewart wrote:
> > ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i686-darwin9.6.0]
>
> > on mac os 10.5
>
> > I downloaded readline and compiled it my self. Then i compiled ruby.
> > So I would suggest its there and working but I am not sure.
>
> Did you install readline after compiling it? I imagine that ruby
> couldn't find wherever readline decided to install its header files.
>
> Say if those files went into /usr/local/include, then you could try
> setting
>
> export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib"
>
> before running ./configure
>
> > I think it
> > might be a linkage issue. Where can i find ext/readline/mkmf.log ?
>
> cd /the/source/directory/where/you/built/ruby
> cd ext/readline
> ls
> cat mkmf.log
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

There is no mkmf.log file in that directory.  When you say
run .configure do you mean in the base src folder where i downloaded
ruby?